In 2010, Florida voters overwhelming passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to end partisan gerrymandering in the drawing of new legislative districts.
No secret that the Republican leadership in Tallahassee wasn’t going to take this lying down. Will of the voters or no, Constitution or no, they weren’t going to simply roll over while their absolute rule over Florida was marginally weakened.
But most Floridians probably didn’t think that Governor Rick Scott, Senate President Mike ‘the Appeaser’ Haridopolos, and Dean ‘Loose’ Cannon would agree to use those same voters’ tax dollars to fight the constitutional amendment they passed.
Nor did they think that, during the voters’ one chance to have their voice heard by legislators in the redistricting process, that a legislator would ‘Like’ a plastic surgery clinic from his iPad instead of paying attention to what Floridians had to say or that legislators would ignore speakers who spoke in favor of a obeying the Constitution and give extra time to speakers who supported them.
It seems like even the lowest of Florida’s expectations won’t be met the current ‘leadership.’